The Comptroller General of the Republic Gerardo Solís, accompanied by the National Director of Engineering, José Vence, carried out a routine inspection of the Ciudad Hospitalaria project “to guarantee that, quickly but well done, the work will soon be available to the people.” Panamanian”.

After the tour of the different modules built by the companies Riga Services, SA; APROCOSA and CMG, SA, Comptroller Solís assured that the control work carried out by the Comptroller’s staff is constant and that he trusts the work that this consortium has been carrying out so that the delivery of the project in its entirety becomes a reality in the next 15 December 2023.

According to the Administrative Coordinator of the Hospital City, Fernanda Billard, the project is divided into five modules, the first includes the Cardiology section that will be delivered on July 15 of this year.

The second module includes the Institute of Nephrology, the Nephrology Hospital, the Industrial Building, the Emergency Room, Outpatient Consultation, Teaching, Administration, the Kitchen and the Wastewater Treatment Plant, this module will be delivered on September 15 , while the third module includes two hospitalization areas and will be delivered on November 15, 2022.

In the fourth module there will be the sections of Laboratory, Central Service, the Simulation Center and the third Hospitalization area, they will be delivered on February 15, 2023; the last module will be the Pediatric Hospital and will be the last deliverable on December 15, 2023.

This hospital is being built on an area of ​​31 hectares and will have a capacity for 1,290 beds; 41 operating rooms; 211 consulting rooms; a patient hotel and 3,539 parking spaces.

The project was tendered in the Government of Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) at a cost of $587 million, to be delivered in July 2015. Its construction began in 2012, but a series of irregularities detected in the work during the administration of President Juan Carlos Varela (2014-2019) delayed its completion.

According to the latest addendum, the project should have been completed for an amount of $554 million, of which the CSS has paid $338 million; and currently has a balance of approximately $215 million.